By Tom Breihan on February 7, 2011 at 6:40 p.m. EST

Photo by Steve Gullick

Right now, Hoboken indie masters Yo La Tengo are in the midst of a tour that doubles as a bizarre conceptual stunt. Every night, they invite someone in the crowd to spin a giant wheel, and then they play whatever set the wheel tells them to. Depending on how the wheel spins, audience members could be in for a set from their garage-noise alter-ego the Condo Fucks, an entire set of songs that begin with the letter "S", or a question-and-answer set, and so on. One of the options on the wheel is for the three members of the band to act out "a classic sitcom." And as Spinner reports, the crowd at the Metro in Chicago found out on Friday night that they weren't joking about this particular joke.

By Ryan Dombal on December 6, 2010 at 5:10 p.m. EST

Even in our post-sell-out age, it's a bit jarring to hear a song by iconoclastic artist and producer Jim O'Rourke in a Walmart commercial. The super-lame spot (see below) is soundtracked by O'Rourke's "Prelude to 110 or 220/Women of the World" from 1999's Eureka, which probably would never be available at Walmart considering it features a painting of a naked guy with a rabbit on his crotch on the cover (see above). In fact, when we just searched "Jim O'Rourke" on Walmart's website, we got exactly zero results. And they have everything! (Thanks to Michael Kokodynsky for the tip.)

We double-checked with O'Rourke's label, Drag City, which confirmed that it indeed is his track in the commercial. Watch it below:

By Larry Fitzmaurice on November 24, 2010 at 11:35 a.m. EST

Here We Go Magic's "Casual", from the Brooklyn-based indie rock outfit's latest LP Pigeons, is a lilting tune that doesn't exactly bring to mind bloody imagery. Yet the clip for the song, directed by directing team Peking (aka Nat Livingston Johnson and Gregory Mitnick), is heavy on the gore. Check it out below, or at Pitchfork.tv.

By Tom Breihan on November 12, 2010 at 1:45 p.m. EST

Gwyneth Paltrow isn't the first fun-to-impersonate screen star to cover Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" on TV; that would be William Shatner. But Paltrow, who won a Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, does sing the song, in its safe-for-radio "Forget You" incarnation, on this coming Tuesday's episode of "Glee". She also dances around in a miniskirt. It's quite a thing. Watch the video below, via Entertainment Weekly.

By Ryan Dombal on November 8, 2010 at 2:20 p.m. EST

Lou Reed photo by Kirstie Shanley

After the recent kerfuffle involving mega-selling reality-show singer Susan Boyle not being able to sing Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" on "America's Got Talent", Reed has decided to patch up any assumed animosities by directing Boyle's new video for the cover. "I wanted to create a beautiful and intimate piece shot in Susan's native Scotland and she quickly agreed," Reed told The Sunday Mail.

By Tom Breihan on October 27, 2010 at 2:40 p.m. EDT

Greg Gutfeld, the host of the Fox News show "Red Eye", loves heavy music. We know this. He's had Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham and Gwar's Oderus Urungus on the show a few times, and he tends to get really amped to interview bands. Still, nothing can quite prepare our collective brain for the "Red Eye" video that follows: Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate, current Fox News host, and all-around conservative icon Mike Huckabee apparently going nuts while praising the Florida fuzz-metal band Torche.

By Ryan Dombal on October 13, 2010 at 11:40 a.m. EDT

Anyone who's seen the Flaming Lips live knows Wayne Coyne has an obsession with fake blood. But now he's taking things one step further, making a Lips poster with his own (real) blood. Yes, blood that was extracted from his body with a needle.

Lucky for all of us, there's a making-of video chronicling the whole process, which the Flaming Lips posted on their Twitter. "We thought it would be silly to use some chicken blood," he says, and who are we to argue. Watch it below: